Bloggers Protesting Pity

A growing number of bloggers have been joining the protest against Jerry Lewis’ humanitarian award. If you didn’t already know, Jerry is receiving a humanitarian award for his work in fueling pity against people with disabilities–pity that has undermined progress toward social equity and human rights. (Of course, what they say is that the award is for his work in raising money for charity; apparently they think the end justifies the means.) Jerry also has insulted people with disabilities, GLBT people, and women in some of his public statements.

Jerry Lewis Sucks — Sign Petitionhttp://tigrlily61.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/jerry-lewis-sucks-sign-petition/
This blog post includes the following quote: “The telethon is, in short, a big racket, which lines the pockets of administrators and researchers, while perpetuating stereotypes of people with disabilities as less than human, and needing to be saved from themselves.”

Jerry Lewis the Humanitarian?http://www.philosophercrip.com/2009/01/12/jerry-lewis-the-humanitarian/
Includes the full text of the petition (and a link to it). The introductory blurb, among other things, says: “How many of us cringe when someone feels “terrible” that we are LPs/deaf/chair users/learning disabled/autistic/etc? That cringe is what this petition is giving voice to.”

Jerry Lewis Should Not Get a Humanitarian Awardhttp://godlessliberalhomo.blogspot.com/2008/12/jerry-lewis-should-not-get-humanitarian.html
This “Godless Liberal Homo” explains his opinion why Jerry Lewis should not be receiving a humanitarian award. The first part of this blog post repeats the familiar text from the Facebook group, but then goes on to include more text from an old press release explaining why people in the disability community have been protesting against Jerry’s telethon for years. Explains the linkage among different forms of oppression.

Jerry Lewis to get humanitarian Oscarhttp://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/12/11/jerry-lewis-oscar/
It’s worth checking Patricia E Bauer’s post for its multiple links to more articles on why people with disabilities have been so consistently enraged toward Jerry and the manner in which he fuels pitying attitudes toward people with disabilities.

Remember to read and sign the petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/jlno2009/petition.html. You can significantly strengthen the impact of your petition signature by using the comments area to write your own explanation of why you support the petition (it’s a tiny comments box, but you can fit several entire sentences, I swear!)

An intriguing discussion may be valued at comment. Thereís no doubt that that you should write much more about this topic, it will not become a taboo subject but normally consumers are too few to talk on such topics. To a higher. Cheers